Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 2 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 3 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 4 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 5 | Exactly same jeans , same jeans , same t-shirt got same colour hair . |
| 6 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 7 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 8 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 9 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 10 | A closer look revealed many discrepancies , the most serious being that the selection procedures had obscured certain factors of the disease itself , and its progress . |
| 11 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 12 | When the college closed in 1797 the building housed several city departments , and now houses the chamber of commerce . |
| 13 | He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers . |
| 14 | He did n't want money made that way ; he did n't want the humiliation . |
| 15 | An important part of that letter which impinges directly on new clause 5 , and makes it essential that the new clause is accepted , was that the right Hon. Gentleman said that before British Rail made any investment plans for rural areas is should consider bus substitution . |
| 16 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 17 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 18 | I once attempted to read his first book , Alex Through The Looking Glass , but stumbled and fell at page 10 where the Hurricane made this observation on the subject of literature : ‘ My favourite read is Robert Ludlum . |
| 19 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 20 | Adjustment of the relative risks for smoking made little difference . |
| 21 | The South African-born striker made little impact and is still out in the cold . |
| 22 | Dulles in any case made few friends among foreign politicians apart from the dour West German chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , and Jean Monnet ( chairman of the European Coal and Steel Community who was doing more than any other figure to create the sort of Europe desired by Washington ) . |
| 23 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 24 | They 're bound to take to Filmer too , you know how civilized he can seem , and I do n't suppose news of the trial got much attention here since it collapsed almost before it began . |
| 25 | I remember he said when you , mum got that money . |
| 26 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 27 | An inspection found some wards were overcrowded , and some toilets and bathrooms were dirty . |
| 28 | This was because of a minor theme on which the admiral wove several variations which went something like this : ‘ I said to So-and-So [ often a general , minister or other senior official ] : ‘ Are you refusing to do what I ask ? ' ’ |
| 29 | The sentence disappointed many people whose prejudice had wanted him hanged , including those pamphleteers who had established his guilt long before any trial . |
| 30 | Gay activists and ladies with steel hair shouted each other down . |